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Google to buy Nest for $3.2 billion

Google just announced that it has entered into an agreement to buy Nest Labs, Inc., makers of the Nest learning thermostat and Nest Protect, a connected smoke detector. The deal will cost Google $3.2 billion.

Nest has always been on Google’s radar—Google Ventures, the company’s startup investment arm, was one of the Nest’s early investors. Google was previously rumored to be building a Nest thermostat competitor, and there were even leaked screenshots of a smart thermostat app built by Google called “EnergySense,” which would let you control the temperature from a smartphone or web client. Now that Google is buying those products’ main competition, it’s unclear what will happen to Google’s internal projects. The one thing we do know is that the Nest brand will be sticking around, and the CEO of Nest, Tony Fadell, will continue to run the company as a separate division in Google. The deal should close in the next few months.

This situation is still unfolding and Ars will continue to monitor it. We’ll update this post as more information becomes available.